Center for Freedom & Prosperity Foundation

Located in Alexandria, Virginia, the Center for Freedom & Prosperity (CF&P) and its associated Foundation have taken adamant positions against global warming science as part of a pro-big business mission “to lobby lawmakers in favor of market liberalization.” In 2016, the Washington Post reported that CF&P was in the “Panama papers” leaks, soliciting funds from Mossack Fonseca to lobby the George W. Bush administration against scrutiny of offshore tax havens.

The Charles Koch Foundation’s grant to CF&P Foundation in 2009 was over a quarter of its overall grant revenue that year, totaling $199,804.

CF&P’s Dan Mitchell helped disseminate the manufactured “climategate” story of stolen emails in 2009, and claims that organizations and businesses striving to find solutions to climate change “have invested money in the scam and they will not give up.”

The think tank defended ExxonMobil when Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe asked them to stop funding climate deniers and applauded oil supermajors BP and ConocoPhillips for pulling out of the “statist” U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition that intended to pass global warming legislation.